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How Can I Make Disciples? Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 14:20-22 Jesus Christ Disciple-Maker.
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How Can I Make Disciples?
Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 14:20-22
Jesus ChristDisciple-Maker
Review
How Jesus Made Disciples What is a Disciple?
Am I a Disciple? The Gospel Test The Following Test The Learning Test The Authentic Test
Am I making disciples that are true disicples?
How can I make disciples?
How can I make disciples?
1. Understand the Instructions
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there!”
Yogi Berra
Greek mathetes 259 Gospels and Acts only
Greek “make disciples”
• Matthew 13:52 (ESV) And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.
• Matthew 27:57 (ESV) When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.
• Matthew 28:19 (ESV) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 14:21 (ESV)
Compound verb (go/ make) “disciples” is the Direct Obj. Baptizing/ teaching are
participles modifying the verb
ENGLISH
Go and make disciples…. baptizing…..teaching
Main verb3 prepositions
Go (going)BaptizingTeaching
GREEK
Go and make disciples…. baptizing…..teaching
Application Disciple-makers PROCLAIM the
gospel Disciple-makers TEACH others Disciple-makers are INTENTIONAL
How can I make disciples?
2. Look for Examples
Example 1: Acts 14
“But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,” (Acts 14:20–21, ESV)
Example 2: Other Christians
Victory Church, Manila 165 (1984) 2,000 (1990) 4,900 (2000) 50,000 (2011)
Grace Community Church
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